Word: broking
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...often they're not." Just lucky. "All you need is a clock and an explosive that's powerful enough," says Ronay. On Pan Am Flight 103, the bomb was the size of a coffee cup, but it happened to be placed near the skin of the plane, where it broke through the fuselage and weakened the frame of the aircraft, causing the plane to break up. "If it had been inboard," says Ronay, "it might not have done that kind of damage. Luggage makes a good buffer." Terrorists may have been lucky with TWA Flight 800 as well...
...David Levy and Yasser Arafat. It is the first time a high-level official from Benjamin Netanyahu's newly-elected government has met with the man long branded a terrorist by the Likud. "The importance of this meeting is that it took place," reports TIME's Eric Silver. "They broke the ice. It was successful in that they both shook hands warmly and seemed to have a good rapport." After Tuesday's meeting, Silver says, the Likud will have no excuses for sending relatively low-level officials for further negotiations with the Palestinians or for not resuming the negotiations even...
...quarrel over the children in 1992 finally broke the marriage. Charles had scheduled his family to join him for a shooting party at Sandringham. Bored with country weekends and disapproving of the slaughter of animals, Diana backed out, proposing that she and the boys go to Windsor to stay with the Queen or to the couple's own country place, Highgrove. That was when Charles' patience finally snapped and he asked for a separation...
...particularly hard. Cyndy Lum, a psychiatric social worker who was part of the crisis-intervention team, describes the scene the first few days after the suicides hit the 6 o'clock news as "a large-scale psychiatric disaster." Students clustered in hallways weeping; classes sat numb and silent; teachers broke down at an after-school meeting. Says math teacher Crosby: "It was the roughest teaching day I've ever had." Because teenagers--impulsive and susceptible to fashion in all things--are considered particularly vulnerable to copycat behavior when it comes to suicide, counselors made a point of talking with students...
Connecticut's Supreme Court broke important new ground last week by ruling that school segregation violates the state's constitution, no matter what caused it. But the shocking thing about the ruling was the knee-jerk reaction of elected officials like Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. "There will be many who are disappointed by this decision, as am I," he proclaimed. "We disagree [with it] and fear the consequences." Even before many people had a chance to read the decision, Blumenthal, a Democrat, had joined Republican Governor John G. Rowland in drawing lines in the sand. No "involuntary busing" to diversify...